2024 Kiryat Malakhi attack

On 16 February 2024, a mass shooting took place at a bus station at the Re'em Junction along Highway 40 in Kiryat Malakhi, a city in Southern District, Israel.

Shortly after 12:30 pm, the shooter arrived at a bus station in Re'em Junction on Highway 40, near Kiryat Malakhi, in a stolen vehicle.

[7] Haaretz initially identified the shooter as a Palestinian from East Jerusalem;[8] the Shin Bet intelligence service later identified the assailant as Fadi Jamjoum, a 37-year-old resident of the Shu'fat Palestinian refugee camp in East Jerusalem, who held an Israeli identity card.

[9] Residents threw stones and Molotov cocktails at police officers, who responded using "riot dispersal means".

[12] United States Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew said he was appalled by the attack and offered condolences to the families affected.